Delko () was a French

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that was founded in 1974. They became a Continental team in 2011 allowing them to ride

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races. After financial difficulties, the team's operations were brought to a halt shortly before the end of the 2021 season.

Doping

In April 2018, news broke that

Rémy Di Gregorio Rémy Di Gregorio (born 31 July 1985) is a French road bicycle racer, who is currently suspended from the sport following a positive in-competition doping test for darbepoetin alfa, a re-engineered form of erythropoietin (EPO). He has previousl ...

had failed an in-competition doping test for

darbepoetin Darbepoetin alfa ( INN) is a re-engineered form of erythropoietin containing 5 amino acid changes (N30, T32, V87, N88, T90) resulting in the creation of 2 new sites for N-linked carbohydrate addition. It has a 3-fold longer serum half-life compar ...

(EPO) during the 2018 edition of

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